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St Anne's, St Anne's-on-the-Sea 
St Anne's from the south-westLocation in Lancashire
Coordinates: 53°45′23″N 3°01′21″W / 53.7565°N 3.0226°W OS grid reference SD 32675 29392 Location St Anne's-on-the-Sea, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Completed 1873 Administration Deanery Kirkham Archdeaconry Lancaster Diocese Blackburn Province York St Anne's Church is an Anglican church in St Anne's-on-the-Sea, a town on the Fylde coastal plain in Lancashire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn and the archdeaconry of Lancaster. It has been designated a Grade II listed building by English Heritage.
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History and administration
St Anne's Church was built in 1872–1873 as a chapel of ease to St Cuthbert's Church, Lytham and was one of the first buildings to be constructed in what would become St Anne's-on-the-Sea.[1] The land for the church was donated by the local Clifton family.[1] It was designed by Lancaster firm Paley and Austin.[1] St Anne's became an independent ecclesiastical parish in 1877.[2] The seaside resort that grew up around the church took its name from it.[3] In 1885–1886 the church was enlarged by Richard Knill Freeman who added a transept, vestry and an to the north, an aisle.[1] A tower was added in 1890, and a lady chapel in 1909.[1]
St Anne's was designated a Grade II listed building by English Heritage on 15 February 1993.[3] The Grade II designation—the third highest of the three grades—is for buildings that are "nationally important and of special interest".[4] An active church in the Church of England, St Anne's is part of the diocese of Blackburn, which is in the Province of York. It is in the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the Deanery of Kirkham. Both the parish and benefice are called St Anne (Heyhouses).[5]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is constructed in a mixed Gothic style of red brick in English bond with sandstone dressings; the roof has red tiles.[3] Its plan consists of a nave and chancel under one roof, a west tower, north and south aisles, south transept, a baptistery west of the tower and a memorial lady chapel to the north of the chancel.[1][3]
The tower is square and has two stages, buttresses on the west side, and a stair turret[1] It has a stepped parapet with corner pinnacles.[3]
Interior and furnishings
There is an organ chamber with an arch that has overlapping brick and basketwork.[1] The lady chapel has a reredos in Caen stone. Stained glass includes work by John Hayward and by Lancaster-based firm Shrigley and Hunt.[1]
Churchyard
Lychgate to churchyard of St Anne's
The churchyard of St Anne's is triangular.[6] There is a sandstone memorial to six members of the St Anne's Laura Janet lifeboat crew who died attempting to rescue the Mexico in the 1886 Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster.[7] A memorial to more of the crew members that were lost is in the churchyard of St Cuthbert's in Lytham.
The churchyard is accessed by a rectangular Tudor-style lychgate, built of timber with a roof of red tile.[6] The churchyard is enclosed by a red brick wall. Together, the lychgate and boundary wall have been given a Grade II designation from English Heritage.[6]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Hartwell & Pevsner (2009), p. 441
- ^ Farrer & Brownbill (1929), pp. 213–19
- ^ a b c d e "Church of St Anne", National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1219217, retrieved 16 May 2011
- ^ "Listed Buildings", National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/listed-buildings/, retrieved 16 May 2011
- ^ "Church Details: St Annes on Sea St Anne (Heyhouses)", blackburn.anglican.org (Diocese of Blackburn), http://www.blackburn.anglican.org/parish.asp?theid=97653, retrieved 16 May 2011
- ^ a b c "Lychgate and Boundary Wall to Churchyard of Church of St Anne", National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1196379, retrieved 16 May 2011
- ^ "RNLI "Laura Janet" Memorial", Official website for St Anne's Church, http://www.stannesparishchurch.org/page28.htm, retrieved 16 May 2011
Sources
- Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1912), "Lytham", A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 7, OCLC 59626695, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53221
- Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 0300126670
External links
- Official website
Media related to St Anne's Church, St Anne's on the Sea at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:- Buildings and structures in Fylde (borough)
- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Diocese of Blackburn
- Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
- Grade II listed churches
- Lytham St Annes
- Paley and Austin buildings
- Religious buildings completed in 1873
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